PORTFOLIO SPENCER B. MOORE moore.spencerb@gmail.com 801-505-2718 101 West 1700 South Bountiful, Utah 84010
CONTENTS
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A FUSION FOR
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SERPENT IN T
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Spring 2020 Studio Project
CITY
Spring 2022 Studio Project
R VERNAL’S FUTURE
THE BODY
Fall 2023 Studio Project
Spring 2023 Studio Project
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ALDER PAVILION GATHERING SPACE Spring 2020, 8 Weeks Kevin King Located in the the heart of Salt Lake Community College’s Taylorsville Campus, the Alder Amphitheater currently lacks any significant way finding and a gathering space. The Alder Pavilion seeks to highlight the amphitheater by providing a structure which would highlight the amphitheater’s location, and serve as a post-performance social gathering space.
Contextual Proportion Study
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Wayfinding
Programmatic Highlight
Circulation: Compress + Expand
Alder Pavilion
Beginning in section, a contextual proportion study was an exercise to understand geometric relationships of the surrounding campus buildings. A series of quick sketches, exploring the different issues of the amphitheater. Following that, a physical study model attempts to demonstrate the circulation operation of a compressed arrival and an expanded “open air lobby” which connects to the amphitheater.
Physical Model exploring circulation operation
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Enclosure A series of digital section iteration begin to dial in the solution. First they study enclosure or not enclosure, in which a open connection to the amphitheater is preferred, as it would imply a relationship to the amphitheater instead of being separated from it.
Walking through
Open Air
Open Air v.2
Alder Pavilion
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Alder Pavilion
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Mountain
MOUNTAIN AND CITY WATER RESEARCH CENTER Spring 2022, 12 Weeks Matt Daines
City
This is a Water Research Center that is an extension of the Hydrology Program at the University of Utah. It provides program for both public and private entities, and aims to orient the user towards larger questions of water use and sustainable settlement.
Site
Vicinity Map
K N PEA G I S EN Site Analysis
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Site Diagram
This project is about the larger contextual relationship between Salt Lake City and its mountains, and the immediate effect it enacts on sites located somewhere between the two forces. It attempts to analyze this broader force and then to synthesize it into a project. How might a form begin to mediate between contradicting contextual and regional relationships?
VIEW TRAILS WATER ROAD
PUBLIC OUTDOOR THEATRE
INSTITUTIONAL PARKING
OUTDOOR CAFE+CLASSES
INDOOR CAFE
GALLERY HUB
PUBLIC CLASSES
LABS + CLASSES
CLASSES
COLLAB SPACES
Program Diagram 8
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Perspective from down-canyon
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PLAYGROUND
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Diagrammatic Axon Mountain and City
Ground Level Plan
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PARKING
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OUTDOOR CLASSROOM
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OUTDOOR CAFE/GRILL
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OPEN CLASS
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BREAK ROOM
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East Elevation (Approach)
Cross Section
Mountain and City
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A FUSION FOR VERNAL’S FUTURE CULTURAL CENTER Fall 2023, 8 Weeks Dwight Yee In Collaboration w/ Gauthier M and Dante G We were interested in the programmatic potential of the synergistic overlap, where discrete elements are sybmiotically benefited. We are also interested in the idea of a cultural-exchange, where multiple cultures begin to overlap and interface.
program blocks
CULTURE
ENTERTAIN
Our proposal was to facilitate a cultural-exchange whereby a space would allow an exterior culture to setup in Vernal, so that these 2 cultures would begin to interact and symbiotically benefit. Through the sharing of food, art, dance, cultures would benefit from each another.
CULTURE
Through our site research, we noticed a severe lack of cultural and entertainment options in Vernal. There was hardly any spaces available after workhours, and even less spaces that would enhance the pedestrian experience. The city also needed to temporally and spatially accommodate events, varying in size and duration.
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fusion diagram
fusion connector
shift fusion block
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We chose to situate our building on the South West Corner of the Lamplighter block, primarily due to escape the noise of main street. We also wanted to connect to the Mid-Block East-West Circulation route, according to MHTN’s 2021 Vernal’s Masterplan. Noise and Walkability were the most important factors. We wanted to create a noise barrier so that one could have a conversation while they strolled. We also wanted to provide a path and shade for a nice pedestrian experience.
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Site Plan A Fusion For Vernal's Future
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CLASSROOM
OFFICE STUDY ROOM OFFICE STUDY ROOM OFFICE STUDY ROOM OFFICE
DANCE STUDIO
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ART STUDIO
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Upper Level Plan
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ALL-GENDER RESTROOM
MENTOR ROOM
BLACKBOX THEATER
MENTOR ROOM
MENTOR ROOM
TICKET OFFICE
MENTOR ROOM
URBAN PLAZA CAFE UP
KITCHEN
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RESTAURANT
FUSION ART GALLERY
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Ground Level Plan A Fusion For Vernal's Future
Section Perspective through “Fusion” Box 13
Tectonic Detail Model *Digitally prepared by me, assembled by team mates
A Fusion For Vernal's Future
Massing Model *Digitally prepared by me, assembled by team mates
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SERPENT IN THE BODY SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS Spring 2023, 6 Weeks Matt Daines If a work of architecture is the referant of Plan, Section, Elevation and Mass compositions, then as a viable way of making new architecture, can we revisit those modes of representation as compositions? Through processes of remixing, reconstituting, rearranging, and recomposing, in essence a kind of collage, can old parts become new wholes? Is it the copy that makes the original?
“Remix” collages of famous architectures
Selected Plan Collage (Steven Holl’s MIT Student Housing)
A sectional diagram of selected plan collage
Sectional program diagram 15
Site Plan Diagram showing “chopped” views
VIEW DIAGRAM Serpent in the Body 1-0"
In Brazilian folklore, there is a myth of the Church Serpent. Used to instill reverence in a congregation, It sleeps under the churches and if the people are noisy it awakes. Just its mere awakening is enough to destroy cities. What if architecture could be about seducing these kinds of serpents within people so that that drastically can effect their environments? Can a nested interior have any relation to an exterior context? Or what is the exterior-effect of an indifferent interior? How might an exterior begin to ‘get inside’?
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Long Section Serpent in the Body
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critique suite
open studio UP DN DN collab. studios
faculty offices
Level 01 Plan
stage aux.
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UP cafe +dining
Main Level Plan
academic suite DN UP seminar theater
Ground Level Plan Serpent in the Body
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DN fab lab
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workshops
exhibit
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auditorium DN
kitchen
student commons
UP dining hall
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View from Cafe looking at stage CAFE + STAGE
Physical Model
collab +critique
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admin suite
Cross Section A Serpent in the Body
Cross Section B
View from Auditorium
AUDITORIUM
pen studios
faculty / staff
fab labs
forum
theater
ceiling theatre audi.
tudent ommons
kitchen +dining
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PERSONAL WORK
Personal Work
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THANK YOU
A FEW INFLUENT
Daniel A. Barber, “After Comfort” Daniel Kahneman, “Thinking Fast and David Brown, “Noise Orders” David J. Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki, Pau Francis Ching, “Architecture: Form, S Jeffrey Kipnis, “On the Wild Side” Jesse Reiser, “Novel of Atlas Tectonic John McMorrough, “Notes on the Ad Mark Danielewski, “House of Leaves” Neil Leach, “Camouflage” Rem Koolhaas, “Bigness” Rem Koolhaas, “The House that Mad Robert Venturi, “Complexity and Con Steven Holl, “Working with Doubt” Viktor Shklovsky, “Art, as Device”
Thank You
TIAL READINGS
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de Mies” ntradiction in Architecture”
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